Bought this early in the season knowing I’d need one at the end of the year to install my pool cover. This is now marked as POOL COVER TOOL so it doesn’t get thrown away thinking it’s a broken piece of metal (which is what happened to my last one!). The extra length over the original one I had is great – was laughing at how easy it was to put the hooks on. Also tried taking off a couple in preparation for next Spring and it seemed pretty easy.

This is a very handy tool if you have a Loop-Loc tension pool cover and prefer closing your pool yourself. You might be able to put the cover on without it, as I did a couple of times before, but it will be a very painful experience. In addition you won’t be able to get it tight enough, so the middle will be always sagging. This tool makes it much easier to install the cover and make it sufficiently tight, as it needs to be. It looks very durable, looks like as it is made of stainless steel and it is easy to use. It is long enough to provide sufficient force on tension springs. Really good product. I would certainly recommend.